Art Car Parade (Part 2)

As promised in my Art Car Parade (Part 1) post, this is the second installment covering the Art Car Parade that my husband and I went to on Saturday, April 16, 2016. Here are some more of the wonderfully whimsical vehicles that we saw in the parade.

Don Burro y Gauchito by John Lea

The front of the Gauchito trailer

The Roachster by Kenny Browning & Noah Edmundson.

Phantoms by W. T. Burge

Spoonazoid by Mark Bradford

If you look closely, you will see that Spooonazoid’s “scales” ARE actually metal spoons!

Rat Way – Artist Unknown

Heroes by Isaac Cohen

Big Catch – Artist Unknown

The Char Car by Mark Bradford who also did Spoonazoid

After the parade, several of the entries were parked so you could get a closer look and better pictures.

Star Car by Mark Bradford, entry number 3 from him

Amber Eagle was very friendly and was posing for photos with her Our Lady of Transportation entry.

A closer view of the Map of Time and Space entry from Rebecca Lowe

A closer view of the Echo Muerte entry by Kristie Odom

This concludes Part 2 of my video essay of the Art Car Parade. Next, I will present Art Car Parade (Part 3) which will focus on the beauty and artwork of the classic cars and low rider entries.

I have been excited to see what other cars were going to be here since the first post. I think the roach one is my favorite this time. I am amazed that people work so hard of their cars to be a part of it!

I agree that The Char Car is definitely one of the most odd-looking entries. It does have wheels. Since I took the photo of it more straight on, the wheels are not as easily recognized. However, if you look closely at the left side of the photo, you will see a very large metal wheel. It very much reminds me of the old-fashioned wagons wheels, but made of metal and much larger! The wheels are quite large, standing over 7 feet tall!

This was not in Austin. This parade was in Victoria, the city where I live. Austin is about 150 miles NorthWest of here and Corpus Christi is about 100 miles South of here. San Antonio and Houston are both about 135 miles from here.

These cars are so cool! Some a little odd but very cool! My fave would be the our lady of transportation car. I don’t know what it is but I kept going back to look it over a few times. Very inventive and unique. Where was this parade? I’m going to have to go to the first post to start from the beginning!

This parade was held in the city where I live, in Texas. The original parade is held in Houston where they just had their 29th annual Art Car Parade the weekend before the parade was here. Victoria has only had an Art Car Parade for 5 years. 🙂

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